dissipationn.

/dɪsɪˈpeɪʃən/

Etymology: < Latin dissipātiōn-em, noun of action from dissipāre to dissipate v. Compare French dissipation (16th cent.).

†1.

a. The action of dissipating or dispersing; a scattering; the fact of being dispersed; dispersed condition. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > [noun] > driving away > driving away in all directions

sparpling1434

dispersionc1450

skailing?c1450

sparklingc1460

disparplinga1513

dissipation1545

dispersing1604

segregationa1616

scatteration1776

disjectiona1806

dispersal1821

scatteraway1851

spreadeagling1869

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > [noun]

dissemblance1556

dissipation1761

dispersiveness1841

1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel (vii.) f. 105^v The kingdom of the Saracens..sprongen vp in the dissipacion of the Romane monarchie.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ii. 143 Banishment of friends, dissipation of Cohorts, nuptial breaches.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 598 Foule dissipation follow'd and forc't rout.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. iii. 143 Peleg, in whose time the famous dissipation of Mankind and distinction of Languages hapned.

1761 C. Johnstone Chrysal (ed. 2) II. ii. xix. 269 In this dissipation I fell to the lot of one of the officers.

b. Optics. The scattering or dispersion of rays of light. circle of dissipation, radius of dissipation: see quots.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > chromatism > [noun] > formation of spectrum

dispersion1728

dissipation1749

anomalous dispersion1872

1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. ii. 219 Narrow the Pupil of the Eye, i.e. lessen the Radius of Dissipation.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Circle of Dissipation..is used for that circular space upon the retina, which is taken up by one of the extreme pensils of rays issuing from an object..Radius of Dissipation, the radius of the circle of Dissipation.

1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. II. xvii. 308 The circular spaces..illuminated by pencils of rays..are called circles of dissipation.

1867 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 6) i. ii. 22 Produced by the central rays falling in a circle of dissipation, before they have come to a focus.

2. The passing away or wasting of a substance, or form of energy, through continuous dispersion or diffusion.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > transmission of electricity, conduction > [noun] > loss of conduction

dissipation?1790

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 94 The substance of the whole body hath a necessary diffluence and dissipation, as well by the in bred heate..as also by the outward aire.

?1790 J. Imison School of Arts (ed. 2) 62 In this case, the dissipation of the electricity is not so considerable.

1881 J. C. Maxwell Treat. Electr. & Magnetism (ed. 2) I. 45 Coulomb investigated the law of dissipation.

1881 Sir W. Thomson in Nature No. 619. 441 Losing..20 per cent of this [energy] by the generation and dissipation of heat through the conductor.

attributive.1879 W. Thomson & P. G. Tait Treat. Nat. Philos. (new ed.) I: Pt. i. §345 [This] function of the velocities..has been called by Lord Rayleigh the Dissipation Function. We prefer to call it Dissipativity. It expresses the rate at which the palpable energy of our supposed cycloidal system is..dissipated away into other forms of energy.

3. Reduction to atoms or to an impalpable condition; complete disintegration or dissolution.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > decomposition, melting, or crumbling away

dissolutiona1398

resolution1533

mouldering1562

dissipation1597

deordination1686

decomposition1777

disintegration1794

chemolysis1872

biolysis1897

biodegradation1941

breakdown1959

biodeterioration1960

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxv. 164 The dissipation of idols..they were, fashioned of matter subiect vnto corruption, therefore to grinde them to dust was easie.

1646 H. More Democritus Platonissans To Rdr. sig. A2 The dissipation of the whole frame of Nature into disjoynted dust.

a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 315 To hear of the least danger of the dissipation of your Church.

1680 H. More Apocalypsis Apocalypseos 189 An utter ruine and dissipation of this Idolatrous City.

a1711 T. Ken Hymnarium 52 in Wks. (1721) II. Saints no Dissipation fear, Who to the Boundless one adhere.

a1797 E. Burke Fourth Let. Peace Regicide Directory France in Writings & Speeches (1991) IX. 60 The dissipation of France into..a cluster of petty Republicks.

1875 E. White Life in Christ (1876) iii. xxi. 325 Another attempt to reconcile this expression of our Lord with the idea of dissipation of the soul.

4. Wasteful expenditure or consumption of money, means, powers, faculties, etc.; squandering, waste.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [noun]

overflowingnessOE

wastinga1300

prodigality1340

misdispendingc1390

misspendingc1390

fool-largessec1405

wantonness1448

fool-largec1450

dilapidationc1460

lavish1483

consuminga1538

profusion1545

sumptuosity1550

wastefulness1551

lashing1556

lavishing1574

profuseness1584

lavishness1590

misspense1591

wastening1604

outlashing1611

duck and drake1614

largesse1614

lavishment1630

squandering1632

prodigence1634

dissipation1639

wastry1645

profusiveness1655

high living1656

nepotation1656

extravagancy1666

extravagance1727

profligacy1792

squander1806

profligateness1817

wastrife1818

spendthriftism1862

wasterfulness1884

high-rolling1890

prodigalism1896

spendthriftiness1950

squanderbugging1966

1639 T. B. tr. J.-P. Camus Certain Moral Relations in S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 351 [Almsgiving] must be done fitly..Otherwise it were rather a dissipation then a distribution.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. i. 13 Means that our Faculties might use without dissipation, distraction, or too great astonishment.

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 241 There had been such a dissipation of treasure.

1785 W. Paley Princ. Moral & Polit. Philos. v. ix Nothing but stupidity or the most frivolous dissipation of thought.

1893 W. Lewin in Bookman June 85/2 Avoiding any wasteful dissipation of his powers.

5. Distraction of the mental faculties or energies from concentration on serious subjects: at first often with colourless sense, as the scattering or distraction of attention, or with laudatory sense, as the dispelling of melancholy or sadness; diversion, amusement; but later implying the frittering away of energies or attention upon frivolities, and thus gradually passing into sense 6; also, with a and plural, a distraction; a diversion; a frivolous amusement.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > [noun] > source of amusement or entertainment

mirtha1250

solacec1290

recreationc1400

esbatement1477

pastime1490

pastancea1500

passe-temps1542

entertainment1561

relief?1578

fancy1590

sport1598

abridgement1600

entertain1601

recreative1615

amusatory1618

nutsa1625

diverter1628

recreator1629

passatempo1632

amuser1724

fun1726

dissipation1733

resource1752

distraction1859

enlivening1859

good, clean fun1867

enlivenment1883

light relief1885

laugh1921

not one's scene1962

violon d'Ingres1963

the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > lack of concentration, distraction > [noun] > causing

distractingc1440

avocationa1617

avokement1637

amusement1658

diversion1667

dissipation1733

evocation1770

misdirection1897

the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > lack of concentration, distraction > [noun] > cause of

by-thought1561

avocation1642

avocament1672

avocativea1677

dissipation1733

call-off1883

1733 J. Swift Let. 28 May I have begun two or three letters..and been prevented from finishing them by a thousand avocations and dissipations.

1745 E. Young Complaint: Night the Eighth 47 While Noise, and Dissipation, comfort Thee.

1748 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 1 July (1932) (modernized text) III. 1176 I am going to Cheltenham to-morrow..for the dissipation and amusement of the journey.

1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia I. xi. 75 Change of place..inevitably produces dissipation of mind.

1774 J. Beattie Minstrel: 2nd Bk. xxvii. 14 In the giddy storm of dissipation toss'd.

1788 J. Wesley Serm. lxxix, in Wks. (1872) VI. 445 We hear of the still increasing dissipations..the word..was hardly heard of fifty years ago..And yet it is so in every one's mouth, that it is already worn threadbare; being one of the cant words of the day.

1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family iv. 60 Nothing would be of so much service to her spirits, as a little dissipation.

1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany III. v. ix. 289 He was not born for the amusements and dissipations of the world.

1876 ‘Ouida’ In Winter City iii. 59 Art had remained with her rather an intellectual dissipation than a tenderness.

6. Waste of the moral and physical powers by undue or vicious indulgence in pleasure; intemperate, dissolute, or vicious mode of living.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [noun] > debauchery

riotc1330

dissolutionc1400

dissoluteness1549

debauchment1617

debauchery1642

debauch1673

dissipation1785

1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 770 A task That bids defiance to the united powers Of fashion, dissipation, taverns, stews.

1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest I. i. 5 In a few years his fortune and affection were equally lost in dissipation.

1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ii. 20 Tupman was not in a condition to rise, after the unwonted dissipation of the previous night.

1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 415 Severer penalties awaited drunkenness, dissipation, or dicing.

1894 W. Gregory Autobiogr. v. 89 He died young, worn out by dissipation.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	dissipation
释义	dissipationn. /dɪsɪˈpeɪʃən/ Etymology: < Latin dissipātiōn-em, noun of action from dissipāre to dissipate v. Compare French dissipation (16th cent.). †1. a. The action of dissipating or dispersing; a scattering; the fact of being dispersed; dispersed condition. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > [noun] > driving away > driving away in all directions sparpling1434 dispersionc1450 skailing?c1450 sparklingc1460 disparplinga1513 dissipation1545 dispersing1604 segregationa1616 scatteration1776 disjectiona1806 dispersal1821 scatteraway1851 spreadeagling1869 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > [noun] dissemblance1556 dissipation1761 dispersiveness1841 1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel (vii.) f. 105^v The kingdom of the Saracens..sprongen vp in the dissipacion of the Romane monarchie. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ii. 143 Banishment of friends, dissipation of Cohorts, nuptial breaches. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 598 Foule dissipation follow'd and forc't rout. View more context for this quotation a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. iii. 143 Peleg, in whose time the famous dissipation of Mankind and distinction of Languages hapned. 1761 C. Johnstone Chrysal (ed. 2) II. ii. xix. 269 In this dissipation I fell to the lot of one of the officers. b. Optics. The scattering or dispersion of rays of light. circle of dissipation, radius of dissipation: see quots. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > chromatism > [noun] > formation of spectrum dispersion1728 dissipation1749 anomalous dispersion1872 1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. ii. 219 Narrow the Pupil of the Eye, i.e. lessen the Radius of Dissipation. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Circle of Dissipation..is used for that circular space upon the retina, which is taken up by one of the extreme pensils of rays issuing from an object..Radius of Dissipation, the radius of the circle of Dissipation. 1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. II. xvii. 308 The circular spaces..illuminated by pencils of rays..are called circles of dissipation. 1867 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 6) i. ii. 22 Produced by the central rays falling in a circle of dissipation, before they have come to a focus. 2. The passing away or wasting of a substance, or form of energy, through continuous dispersion or diffusion. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > transmission of electricity, conduction > [noun] > loss of conduction dissipation?1790 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 94 The substance of the whole body hath a necessary diffluence and dissipation, as well by the in bred heate..as also by the outward aire. ?1790 J. Imison School of Arts (ed. 2) 62 In this case, the dissipation of the electricity is not so considerable. 1881 J. C. Maxwell Treat. Electr. & Magnetism (ed. 2) I. 45 Coulomb investigated the law of dissipation. 1881 Sir W. Thomson in Nature No. 619. 441 Losing..20 per cent of this [energy] by the generation and dissipation of heat through the conductor. attributive.1879 W. Thomson & P. G. Tait Treat. Nat. Philos. (new ed.) I: Pt. i. §345 [This] function of the velocities..has been called by Lord Rayleigh the Dissipation Function. We prefer to call it Dissipativity. It expresses the rate at which the palpable energy of our supposed cycloidal system is..dissipated away into other forms of energy. 3. Reduction to atoms or to an impalpable condition; complete disintegration or dissolution. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > decomposition, melting, or crumbling away dissolutiona1398 resolution1533 mouldering1562 dissipation1597 deordination1686 decomposition1777 disintegration1794 chemolysis1872 biolysis1897 biodegradation1941 breakdown1959 biodeterioration1960 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxv. 164 The dissipation of idols..they were, fashioned of matter subiect vnto corruption, therefore to grinde them to dust was easie. 1646 H. More Democritus Platonissans To Rdr. sig. A2 The dissipation of the whole frame of Nature into disjoynted dust. a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 315 To hear of the least danger of the dissipation of your Church. 1680 H. More Apocalypsis Apocalypseos 189 An utter ruine and dissipation of this Idolatrous City. a1711 T. Ken Hymnarium 52 in Wks. (1721) II. Saints no Dissipation fear, Who to the Boundless one adhere. a1797 E. Burke Fourth Let. Peace Regicide Directory France in Writings & Speeches (1991) IX. 60 The dissipation of France into..a cluster of petty Republicks. 1875 E. White Life in Christ (1876) iii. xxi. 325 Another attempt to reconcile this expression of our Lord with the idea of dissipation of the soul. 4. Wasteful expenditure or consumption of money, means, powers, faculties, etc.; squandering, waste. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [noun] overflowingnessOE wastinga1300 prodigality1340 misdispendingc1390 misspendingc1390 fool-largessec1405 wantonness1448 fool-largec1450 dilapidationc1460 lavish1483 consuminga1538 profusion1545 sumptuosity1550 wastefulness1551 lashing1556 lavishing1574 profuseness1584 lavishness1590 misspense1591 wastening1604 outlashing1611 duck and drake1614 largesse1614 lavishment1630 squandering1632 prodigence1634 dissipation1639 wastry1645 profusiveness1655 high living1656 nepotation1656 extravagancy1666 extravagance1727 profligacy1792 squander1806 profligateness1817 wastrife1818 spendthriftism1862 wasterfulness1884 high-rolling1890 prodigalism1896 spendthriftiness1950 squanderbugging1966 1639 T. B. tr. J.-P. Camus Certain Moral Relations in S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 351 [Almsgiving] must be done fitly..Otherwise it were rather a dissipation then a distribution. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. i. 13 Means that our Faculties might use without dissipation, distraction, or too great astonishment. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 241 There had been such a dissipation of treasure. 1785 W. Paley Princ. Moral & Polit. Philos. v. ix Nothing but stupidity or the most frivolous dissipation of thought. 1893 W. Lewin in Bookman June 85/2 Avoiding any wasteful dissipation of his powers. 5. Distraction of the mental faculties or energies from concentration on serious subjects: at first often with colourless sense, as the scattering or distraction of attention, or with laudatory sense, as the dispelling of melancholy or sadness; diversion, amusement; but later implying the frittering away of energies or attention upon frivolities, and thus gradually passing into sense 6; also, with a and plural, a distraction; a diversion; a frivolous amusement. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > [noun] > source of amusement or entertainment mirtha1250 solacec1290 recreationc1400 esbatement1477 pastime1490 pastancea1500 passe-temps1542 entertainment1561 relief?1578 fancy1590 sport1598 abridgement1600 entertain1601 recreative1615 amusatory1618 nutsa1625 diverter1628 recreator1629 passatempo1632 amuser1724 fun1726 dissipation1733 resource1752 distraction1859 enlivening1859 good, clean fun1867 enlivenment1883 light relief1885 laugh1921 not one's scene1962 violon d'Ingres1963 the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > lack of concentration, distraction > [noun] > causing distractingc1440 avocationa1617 avokement1637 amusement1658 diversion1667 dissipation1733 evocation1770 misdirection1897 the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > lack of concentration, distraction > [noun] > cause of by-thought1561 avocation1642 avocament1672 avocativea1677 dissipation1733 call-off1883 1733 J. Swift Let. 28 May I have begun two or three letters..and been prevented from finishing them by a thousand avocations and dissipations. 1745 E. Young Complaint: Night the Eighth 47 While Noise, and Dissipation, comfort Thee. 1748 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 1 July (1932) (modernized text) III. 1176 I am going to Cheltenham to-morrow..for the dissipation and amusement of the journey. 1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia I. xi. 75 Change of place..inevitably produces dissipation of mind. 1774 J. Beattie Minstrel: 2nd Bk. xxvii. 14 In the giddy storm of dissipation toss'd. 1788 J. Wesley Serm. lxxix, in Wks. (1872) VI. 445 We hear of the still increasing dissipations..the word..was hardly heard of fifty years ago..And yet it is so in every one's mouth, that it is already worn threadbare; being one of the cant words of the day. 1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family iv. 60 Nothing would be of so much service to her spirits, as a little dissipation. 1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany III. v. ix. 289 He was not born for the amusements and dissipations of the world. 1876 ‘Ouida’ In Winter City iii. 59 Art had remained with her rather an intellectual dissipation than a tenderness. 6. Waste of the moral and physical powers by undue or vicious indulgence in pleasure; intemperate, dissolute, or vicious mode of living. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [noun] > debauchery riotc1330 dissolutionc1400 dissoluteness1549 debauchment1617 debauchery1642 debauch1673 dissipation1785 1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 770 A task That bids defiance to the united powers Of fashion, dissipation, taverns, stews. 1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest I. i. 5 In a few years his fortune and affection were equally lost in dissipation. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ii. 20 Tupman was not in a condition to rise, after the unwonted dissipation of the previous night. 1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 415 Severer penalties awaited drunkenness, dissipation, or dicing. 1894 W. Gregory Autobiogr. v. 89 He died young, worn out by dissipation. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1545
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